Find out… when microbloggers express approval of or provide brief counterpoints to blog posts, or where forums and listservs point to and extend wiki Talk page disputes

Simplifies. But would need adoption by major hosts. “Argument Blogging needs mainly evangelism and integration with hosted systems to help the World Wide Argument Web [16] emerge, and a federated network in order to make it scalable and resistant to disruption.”

Adoption by large sitesUse by individuals in large numbersargumentation ecosystem for social media, aligning Semantic Web models for argumentation with those for social media, AIF (alone) doesn’t solve this (yet)Social Websites may not be in RDFAIF expects argument schemesSocial Semantic Web schemes (FOAF, SIOC) mainly model the overall structure.

Facebookargumentation ecosystem for social media, aligning Semantic Web models for argumentation with those for social media, AIF (alone) doesn’t solve this (yet)Social Websites may not be in RDFAIF expects argument schemesSocial Semantic Web schemes (FOAF, SIOC) mainly model the overall structure.

How long does a comment remain visible? – indefinitely (depends on bot archiving, human archiving)How easy is it to quote? – not directly supportedHow is agreement expressed? – someone makes an edit, or states that they agreeArguments happen across the Social Web.The affordances and interaction patterns of each site affect which types of conversations are well-supported—and thus what kind and how much argumentation occurs.

How long does a comment remain visible? Very brieflyHow easy is it to quote? Depends somewhat on message lengthHow is agreement expressed? RT *may* indicate agreement, depending on comments added. @replies can be used to say “good job” or something similarArguments happen across the Social Web.The affordances and interaction patterns of each site affect which types of conversations are well-supported—and thus what kind and how much argumentation occurs.

Sindice SIOC widget:Shows posts, comments, and topics, from across the Web from sites which use the SIOC ontology.http://www.johnbreslin.com/taxonomy/term/1606 “if you look at the post author or click into any comments list, each user now has a speech bubble beside the username. Clicking on this bubble will show you posts, comments and topics created by that user across the &quot;SIOC-o-sphere&quot;.argumentation ecosystem for social media, aligning Semantic Web models for argumentation with those for social media, AIF (alone) doesn’t solve this (yet)Social Websites may not be in RDFAIF expects argument schemesSocial Semantic Web schemes (FOAF, SIOC) mainly model the overall structure.

argumentation ecosystem for social media, aligning Semantic Web models for argumentation with those for social media, AIF (alone) doesn’t solve this (yet)Social Websites may not be in RDFAIF expects argument schemesSocial Semantic Web schemes (FOAF, SIOC) mainly model the overall structure.

Adoption by large sitesUse by individuals in large numbersargumentation ecosystem for social media, aligning Semantic Web models for argumentation with those for social media, AIF (alone) doesn’t solve this (yet)Social Websites may not be in RDFAIF expects argument schemesSocial Semantic Web schemes (FOAF, SIOC) mainly model the overall structure.

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World Wide Argument Web (WWAW)2What if instead of following mailing lists, blogs, online magazines, scientific journals…You could follow ARGUMENTS?Who is arguing about this topic? Or product? Or idea?Is their view positive or negative?Are their ideas credible? Are they trustworthy? Do people I trust, trust them?What arguments are they making?

Trust & credibility layer (Social Semantic research)Restricting to the friends or colleagues you trust… Or even, Ted for golf, and Roberto for restaurant tips!8

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Argumentation on today’s Social WebNumerous sites with different ‘genres’:Forums, Blogs, Wikis, Microblogging, …Affordances like:How long does a comment remain visible?How easy is it to quote?How is agreement expressed?9

What’s missing for large sites?Is ‘agree’/ ‘disagree’ enough?If there’s more complexity, will my users adopt it?What kind of interfaces make this palatable + easy?Which ontology should I use?What features are important? Depends on a given community, type of environment“Show me the data”chicken & egg problem12

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What’s missing for individual users?To get users to comment:Make it easy-to-useNeed enough space for the message lengthContext matters:Am I looking at the most recent message?Who wrote the message I’m replying to?13

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Collating blog commentsCollation & querying across the Web14Sindice SIOC plugin for WordPress blogs: did a commenter post on other websites?